Chans Quotes & Sayings

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual. — William O. Douglas

I'm not saying you are jealous or insecure. I'm just saying that you obsessing over another person's accomplishments makes you look that way. — Dan Pearce

On the wind his sail unfurled and away from our shores his ship drifted. — Celma Ribeiro

These same ABCs couldn't speak Chinese and didn't care---but you don't have shit without your native tongue. African slaves were forced by threat of physical punishment to abandon their native languages, but a lot of us just gave ours up with a shrug---these Uncle Chans convinced us to assimilate, shut the fuck up, and play the part. What they didn't understand is that after your have the money and degrees, you can't buy your identity back. I wasn't worried about degrees, but I cared about my roots. Even if I hated what it meant to be an Asian in t he American wilderness, i respected the Chinese home I was raised in. Usually I wasn't so vocal about Asian identity, but without my parents around, I felt a sudden duty to say something myself. It's funny how annoying I thought my mom was, but as soon as she wasn't around, i carried the torch for her. — Eddie Huang

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. — Bill Gates

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent. — Dwight L. Moody

The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such — Anton Szandor LaVey

Screams and laughter simultaneously rent the air. Women were being physically harassed by the soldiers who had just killed their husbands, fathers and brothers. After the battle, men would win but the women always lost. — Sandeep Sharma

It's always questionable to intervene decisively in strange circumstances. — Franz Kafka

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow. — Annie Smith Peck

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces. — Hillary Clinton

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Acting is my life. It's what I live and breathe. — Ruby Rose

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development? — Edward Abbey